When taken completely out of context, this is _very_ reminiscent of a Hammer horror film. That just shows how well this serial was made; if only Episode 3 could be found so we can enjoy _The Web of Fear_ as it was meant to be seen.
TheGodlikeDragon Just because it's old doesn't mean it can't be as good as anything done today. In fact most of New Who is too light hearted and drama-like to have many scary scenes. The classic series sometimes does scares better as it doesn't rely on amazing effects more the ideas behind it and building a sense of tension. Obviously that doesn't work when the costume is shit which was often the case but when classic who worked, it worked really well.
Lord Slarr i call it the "Jaws" effect... We hardly see the shark in Jaws because the animatronics didn't work the way they wanted it to. This then left us with the idea of the shark in the water. better than actually seeing it ;-)
EconGeekProductions Quite a lot strangely. There was a low budget transformers movie ( can't remember what it is called) with New series Doctor who sounds.
Acting, direction, lighting - all brilliant. This could only have been a Douglas Camfield episode (with a nod to Hitchcock with the stuffed animals). No disrespect to Dudley Simpson who did some great work, but I loved Who episodes that used library music. It just gives the episodes a more epic feel. The only way this could have been bettered is if it was shot on 35mm. Imagine the Blu-ray quality of that! 👍
Pity about the Julius Silverstein character being an offensive Jewish stereotype. Fortunately, Terrance Dicks' novelisation of this story fixed this issue by renaming the character Emil Julius and doing away with the stereotypical speech patterns.
Brilliant precursor to the UNIT stories of the Pertwee era and the gothic horror of the Baker/Hinchcliffe years. Also, great for making Doctor Who fans grin whenever they watch The Shining without anyone else knowing why :)
@@jamlym4974 It was monsters in general popular, but just because Doctor Who did it doesn't mean it was a trend. Daleks appearing didn't mean trash cans with eye stalks were a popular thing, for instance... you look like Jim Morrison, by the way.
Doctor who is my favourite black and white show the twilight zone and the outer limits can never get as tense as this story and others from the hartnell & troughton era.
This scene is more or less how the stage version put on in Fratton many years ago started. It was a kind of pre-titles teaser. At the moment the Yeti struck, the theme music kicked in, followed by the rest of the story.
I was 7 years old and remember how scary dr who was, it was often behind the sofa stuff, the atmosphere made it and the monsters always appeared frightening with close up camera work, fond memories.
Not sure if it has been commented on before but Douglas Camfield (who directed this serial for Doctor Who) was much admired by Stanley Kubrick; Kubrick would later use the same section of music from this scene in The Shining.
It's made in 1968, but it's set in 1975, somewhere in the UK. So Earth. Professor Travers is an adventurer who previously helped the Doctor defeat the Great Intelligence in "The Abominable Snowmen", a few stories before this one. He re-appears in this story, 40 years older. Anne is his daughter.
Here's where things get a bit interesting. 'The Invasion' is 4 years after that, so 1979. 'Spearhead from Space' is set in modern day, i.e. 1970. *Before* the events of 'The Web of Fear'.
According to Wikipedia's 'List of music featured on Doctor Who' (annoyingly, it won't let me post links here) Bartók's music was used in the original broadcast. The same piece of music was also used in 'The Enemy of the World'.
I remember as a kid in those days, on a day out in London, going on the Piccadilly Line....everyone was talking about the Yeti that lived in the tunnels! Spooky!
This music is from the shining. Where Danny goes into room 237. This is the music. I'm watching the shining now. This is the music. Watch the shining and watch this. I knew I knew it from somewhere. It's not similar it's exactly the same.
Good clip. Though in my opinion the roaring of the yeti sound effect still sounds too much like a flushing toilet (which by the way was how they got the affect)
"Why would you watch a clip without having watched the episode?" Huh? I DID watch it - about 40-odd years ago. I con't remember every piece of incidental music I've ever heard. I don't understand why your reply was phrased like that (sarcasm?). I did state that mine was a genuine query.
This was the music used in The Shining (the maze scene). Was it added to this clip just for this showing on you tube, or was it there originally and used by Kubrick later? Genuine question, by the way.
It was stock library music by the composer Bela Bartok. It was used in this Dr Who story and Enemy Of The World first long before The Shining. It was later used in Ready Player One too.
Ahhhhh! Well maybe you should run away Silverstein instead of standing there for 10 seconds with the worst peripheral vision ever! And after you saw it moving, maybe you should, to use the Doctor's catchphrase, RUN! Anybody know who Anne and Professor Travers are? And what time era/planet this is?
When taken completely out of context, this is _very_ reminiscent of a Hammer horror film. That just shows how well this serial was made; if only Episode 3 could be found so we can enjoy _The Web of Fear_ as it was meant to be seen.
game4brains 123 I agree.
It was found but it was stolen before it could be delivered to the BBC :(
I like this incarnation of the yetis more because they look more scary. The ones in The Abominable Snowmen were just cuddly.
*Aw, but just look how cuddly they are!~ :3*
I think that was the reason for the redesign.
I Always thought the yeti where Scary
They just had a spiky hair cut and lost a few robo pounds
I like this incarnation and story even more if the thieving asshole just return episode 3.
This is by far one of the best shot scenes in all of the show. Brilliant music and every thing is great.
Yeah, really creepy. Wonderful.
The music was in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining as well.
The wonderfully 'Hammer-horroresque' music (also used by Kubrick in 'The Shining') is from Bartók's 'Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta'.
Even though it is old, it has still a certain creepy feel to it
Being old, in black & white, helps make it creepy. A good vintage.
borgduck Yes it does
borgduck Agreed. Like Quatermass.
TheGodlikeDragon Just because it's old doesn't mean it can't be as good as anything done today. In fact most of New Who is too light hearted and drama-like to have many scary scenes. The classic series sometimes does scares better as it doesn't rely on amazing effects more the ideas behind it and building a sense of tension. Obviously that doesn't work when the costume is shit which was often the case but when classic who worked, it worked really well.
Lord Slarr i call it the "Jaws" effect... We hardly see the shark in Jaws because the animatronics didn't work the way they wanted it to. This then left us with the idea of the shark in the water. better than actually seeing it ;-)
The music in this was also in The Shining. Mind blown.
I presume it was originally from Doctor Who though? Did sound familiar. Since when does the BBC give out rights to their music?
EconGeekProductions Quite a lot strangely. There was a low budget transformers movie ( can't remember what it is called) with New series Doctor who sounds.
jampox101 Well, you know the "dirt poor" BBC, if the money's right.
True. And the movie was Transmorphers.
the music was also used in Ridley Scott's 'Alien'
Are we just going to ignore the fact that the song they use in this scene is used in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"
Kubrick actually watched doctor who and rung up Douglas Camfield to ask him a question about a scene in Daleks master plan apparently
@@peterjoyfilms yes that is true- he wanted to know how Camfield had filmed Katarinas’s dead body floating in space in the Dalek Masterplan.
I watched this yesterday filled with excitement and I still love it! I wish my brother shared the same feelings. He thought it was boring!
Heard this music pop up on Ready Player One, never knew it was in the Shining. Awesome piece, way ahead of its time.
Acting, direction, lighting - all brilliant. This could only have been a Douglas Camfield episode (with a nod to Hitchcock with the stuffed animals). No disrespect to Dudley Simpson who did some great work, but I loved Who episodes that used library music. It just gives the episodes a more epic feel. The only way this could have been bettered is if it was shot on 35mm. Imagine the Blu-ray quality of that! 👍
Pity about the Julius Silverstein character being an offensive Jewish stereotype. Fortunately, Terrance Dicks' novelisation of this story fixed this issue by renaming the character Emil Julius and doing away with the stereotypical speech patterns.
60s Doctor Who at it's very best, you could mistake this scene for something out of a film. But no, this is how brilliant Doctor Who is.
Brilliant precursor to the UNIT stories of the Pertwee era and the gothic horror of the Baker/Hinchcliffe years.
Also, great for making Doctor Who fans grin whenever they watch The Shining without anyone else knowing why :)
I WARNED YOU, JULIUS, I WARNED YOU!
The Yeti was all the rage back then because first recorded sightings of him or them were around that time period.
You're kidding, right? You think the Yeti myth and sightings started just 50 years ago?
@@SStupendous I think what I meant was that people started getting yeti footage at around that time.
@@jamlym4974 It was monsters in general popular, but just because Doctor Who did it doesn't mean it was a trend. Daleks appearing didn't mean trash cans with eye stalks were a popular thing, for instance... you look like Jim Morrison, by the way.
The music and lighting are what really sell it. It’s so wonderfully spooky.
Doctor who is my favourite black and white show the twilight zone and the outer limits can never get as tense as this story and others from the hartnell & troughton era.
This scene is more or less how the stage version put on in Fratton many years ago started. It was a kind of pre-titles teaser. At the moment the Yeti struck, the theme music kicked in, followed by the rest of the story.
I'm so glad they recovered most of the Web of Fear back in 2013.
OMG! That Yeti really freaked me out.
This is probably the closest they ever got to Hammer Horror, in my opinion one of the best scenes in the shows history
I was 7 years old and remember how scary dr who was, it was often behind the sofa stuff, the atmosphere made it and the monsters always appeared frightening with close up camera work, fond memories.
I love seeing all of these clips from past episodes! I really hope that these are leading up to a re-release of the entire series on BluRay. ;D
Not sure if it has been commented on before but Douglas Camfield (who directed this serial for Doctor Who) was much admired by Stanley Kubrick; Kubrick would later use the same section of music from this scene in The Shining.
The music is by Bela Bartok.
Thank you - this is the piece of info I was looking for!
The music is perfect.
0:43, 0:46
That’s the door open and close sound also used on Postman Pat.
It's made in 1968, but it's set in 1975, somewhere in the UK. So Earth.
Professor Travers is an adventurer who previously helped the Doctor defeat the Great Intelligence in "The Abominable Snowmen", a few stories before this one. He re-appears in this story, 40 years older. Anne is his daughter.
Here's where things get a bit interesting. 'The Invasion' is 4 years after that, so 1979. 'Spearhead from Space' is set in modern day, i.e. 1970. *Before* the events of 'The Web of Fear'.
Robot Yeti=AWESOME!
Is that Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta by Béla Bartók?
I feel like the narrated soundtrack and my imagination are better than any telesnap recon or animation could ever be.
This scene could be my favourite in the classic series, Phenomenal!
I really like this story and the music used in the story that was heard in the previous story The Enemy Of The World.
According to Wikipedia's 'List of music featured on Doctor Who' (annoyingly, it won't let me post links here) Bartók's music was used in the original broadcast. The same piece of music was also used in 'The Enemy of the World'.
Possibly my favourite scene in Doctor Who
Am I the only one here who wants to hug the yeti??
I remember as a kid in those days, on a day out in London, going on the Piccadilly Line....everyone was talking about the Yeti that lived in the tunnels! Spooky!
0:26 Julius Have been warned.
The sphere was more scary than the yeti.
I agree the animation isn't the best I don't see why it can't be better.. but I would rather see it that way then not at all.
This music is from the shining. Where Danny goes into room 237. This is the music. I'm watching the shining now. This is the music. Watch the shining and watch this. I knew I knew it from somewhere. It's not similar it's exactly the same.
Oh cool! Thanks for the info!
That’s the theme of the shining at the beginning !
that's why Don Coscarelli stole the sphere but not the Yeti for Phantasm.
Good clip. Though in my opinion the roaring of the yeti sound effect still sounds too much like a flushing toilet (which by the way was how they got the affect)
Funny how seven to eight months later, the majority of this story was uploaded to iTunes.
"Why would you watch a clip without having watched the episode?"
Huh? I DID watch it - about 40-odd years ago. I con't remember every piece of incidental music I've ever heard. I don't understand why your reply was phrased like that (sarcasm?). I did state that mine was a genuine query.
I should watch this one again! 🤔
This is incredible atmospherically. if only the yeti were a bit more convincing! I really wish more of the Troughton era was around!
They don't need to be, they're robot Yeti. Not 'real' ones.
Bring these spooky villains back
Love the spooky atmosphere
This part of music was used in the shining 1980
The music sounds like the shining
You notice how the sphere looks like Sputnik? And was the same size? Even the beeping is the same as Sputnik transmitted.
thedavecorp Probably intentional to play on that cold war fear.
This was the music used in The Shining (the maze scene). Was it added to this clip just for this showing on you tube, or was it there originally and used by Kubrick later? Genuine question, by the way.
It was stock library music by the composer Bela Bartok. It was used in this Dr Who story and Enemy Of The World first long before The Shining. It was later used in Ready Player One too.
The shining XD
Ahhhhh! Well maybe you should run away Silverstein instead of standing there for 10 seconds with the worst peripheral vision ever! And after you saw it moving, maybe you should, to use the Doctor's catchphrase, RUN!
Anybody know who Anne and Professor Travers are? And what time era/planet this is?
At 1.33 the angle looks a bit like william hartnell
They're animating some of them I believe
So that's where I know it from. Thanks.
You're welcome.
This might Entertain You Cause This Happens In Part 1 Beginning
Long before phantasm.
like the daleks the yeti move very slowly and not very well.
The guy who says get out reminds me of Ronnie Corbett! Is that bad?
The Great Intelligence strikes and the introduction of UNIT
UNIT Came later.
Do we know how many are missing?
The days when children would hide behind the sofa watching Dr Who. Me included!
They use the same music in the shinning
H. This was scarey when I was a kid
Soundtrack recycled for “The Shining”.
For a 1968 story this scene us very dramatic
Is that a yeti
Is it me or does Julius look like an older more man-like moaning myrtle
so do i.